INFORM April 2026

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26 CARBON NEUTRAL PROCESSING THAT ENHANCES THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF MEAL Global regulation changes concerning the treatment of animal feed have sparked new oilseed meal processing challenges. Some methods create an unwelcome reaction between the animal feed and the added reagent, while others involve excessive heat that causes protein to be less digestible, or an unevenly heated product. Read about how to protect oilseed meal and recover energy using moving bed heat exchangers while improving carbon intensity and sustainability in oilseeds operations.

22 WHEN DISASTER STRIKES: ENSURING SAFETY IN OILSEED PROCESSING When the unthinkable happens, personnel safety is the priority. After that a long list of procedures follows, like an incident investigation, before you can get the plant up and running again. Having a well-established and practiced Emergency Action Plan is critical to ensure a safe and rapid recovery. This article addresses the safety challenges associated with oilseed refineries and the proper steps to take in the event of an emergency.

32 ECO-EXTRACTION A VIABLE INDUSTRIAL OPTION This story describes a comparison of soybean oil extraction using 2-methyloxolane, a biobased solvent, and hexane in a semi-industrial continuous multistage countercurrent extractor. In this trial, 2-MeOx yielded an oil richer in phenolic compounds than the hexane extracted oil resulting in higher oxidative stability. The authors describe extraction conditions along with other details about the resulting oils, and assess the scale-up potential of their experiment.

38 REGULATORY REVIEW Rapid risk assessment on acute reference dose of cereulide in infants 39 EXTRACTS & DISTILLATES Processing articles picked by researchers

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